Zombie Proust

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Jérôme Prieur, Jerome Prieur, Nancy Prieur, Jerome & Kline

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PRIX CÉLESTE 2001"Marcel Proust passed away on the 18th of November. It was 1922. One day, I could no longer resist: I went in search of him. “I prowled about, I visited the rooms where he had lived, I caught glimpses of abandoned châteaus and haunted places, I walked in his footsteps. I wanted to see what his eyes had seen. I looked at his photographs, I uncovered relics and little treasures. I tried to find out who he had been in life, what he had really been like. I interrogated those among the dead who could still reply: his friends, his confidants, those who had crossed paths with him. “Who was he? The dandy who set out for salons as though on a foreign expedition? Or the invisible man who flinched from the light, the character in a thriller? The brilliant writer was concealing a doppelgänger, and I pursued him as though tracking down a missing relative.” — Jérôme Prieur

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Utgivningsdatum2025-07-10
Mått120 x 190 x 14 mm
Vikt144 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagLes Fugitives
ISBN9781068300127
ÖversättareKline, Nancy
UtmärkelserWinner of Prix Céleste 2001

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Jérôme Prieur is a writer and filmmaker. He holds PhDs in law and literature, the latter supervised by Hélène Cixous. His books and films bear witness to an obsession with traces of the past, images, archives, and the presence of the departed. He is the author of around twenty books, including Roman noir, on Gothic literature (notably, The Private Memoirs and Confession of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg); Rendez-vous dans une autre vie, in search of the ghosts of Pompeii and of the 1900 Paris Exposition; La moustache du soldat inconnu, in which he claims to relate ‘his memories of the Great War’; and recently Regarder et ne pas voir, a chiaroscuro portrait of a witness to the events of the 1930s and ’40s. In his latest, multi-award-winning film, Sentinels of Forgetting, the protagonists are the sculpted figures on memorials of the First World War.

'Through meticulous research and poetic insight, Prieur delicately gathers fragments from Proust’s life and work, weaving them into a hauntingly vivid portrait of the man behind the masterpiece. Zombie Proust goes beyond biography; it’s a resurrection. With care and reverence, Prieur offers us new eyes through which to see the writer, revealing a Marcel Proust who is as deeply human as he is a literary icon.' —Ryan McMenamin ‘Prieur has succeeded magnificently in bringing his portrait of Proust to life’ —Le Monde 'Every page is shot through with the feeling of overwhelming, enthusiastic, affectionate gratitude that readers of In Search of Lost Time feel for Proust the writer and Proust the man.' —Le Matricule des anges 'Scarcely any other book on Proust evades with such effortless skill the classic dilemma of whether to relate everything to the work or to the man. Prieur resurrects them both as a single phantom, in the night time favoured by Proust, perfectly conjuring up scents and tastes, with a love which owes nothing to neurosis.' —Journal du Dimanche